English Coaching
for Arts Professionals
Speak English without Compromising Your Message
Forthcoming Courses
Sketchbook
Launching soon: an English course for artists. Just 8 places, half price as we shape it around you — a unique, coach-led experience unlike any online course.
September 2025
Portfolio Coaching
Helping international candidates into UK art schools
January 2026
Creative Practice-led Learning for English
Art careers are made by people clicking with each other in one context and reaching out in another.
It all feels informal, but within such gigs and jams are opportunities to impress, promote yourself and propel your career forward.
Gigs & Jams is practice-based creative learning for English.
That’s English coaching which gives you the tools to be YOURSELF in English.
Don’t compromise your message.
Own your English.
True Voice English Co-Founders Ruth Pringle & Jennie Reed
Ruth & Jennie are joining forces to help artists, designers and architects speak English with confidence for their careers.
This introduction shares WHY current English learning options are not helping artists, designers, and architects.
New | Word Drop
In July 2025, Jennie & Ruth are sending a series of video resources straight to your inbox.
Word Drop is a small, supportive intervention.
It’s not here to push you forward.
It’s here to give you a chance to pause, reconnect, and hear how vocabulary lives in real voices.
It’s a moment of self-repair —
a chance to soften your expectations, breathe, and come back to English on your own terms.
Sign up for your free Word Drop videos: July – September 2025
Why Do Creatives Need Specialist English Training?
English for Creative Careers is not (as many people think), just art and design vocabulary wrapped in general English.
English for creatives rehearses all the language skills YOU need to make, promote and present creative work as an L2 English user across international art & design professions.
English for creatives has different goals from any other kind of language training. It’s about getting your words exact when precision matters, and laughing in the wind when it doesn’t.
Creatives: choose a skilled, experienced English teacher/coach with a professional background in the arts.
Their experience is the bridge between the language you need and being art career-ready.
True Voice English help:
Enjoy English Year-Round
We’ve converted tactile, social & creative experiences into online adventures in English.
This is not just another online English course!
We offer bespoke online Artist-Residency-Experiences that get internationals talking.
We know what creative careers need – and how creative minds learn best.
Benefit from our authentic sources, purpose-built learning platforms, video chats, WhatsApp messaging – and our Network of Scottish Makers, Artists and Creative Professionals.
Learn English without leaving your studio.
Culturally Rich English Experiences
Artists, designers and makers: seek creative development WHILE gaining professional English language skills.
This will deepen your feeling of belonging in English and uncover the exact terms you need to describe your work and processes.
English Coaching for Arts – Virtually
Build your English for creative careers through real-world conversations, not classrooms. Talk studio-to-studio with our practice-led Sketching Course that connects you with professional Scottish artists for quick, daily chats guided by ELT professionals.
English Coaching for Arts – Residency
Join our annual 2-week artist residency in Perthshire, Scotland and make, collaborate and converse in person.